Introduction: Legacies of Empire

Black, Lynsey; Seal, Lizzie; Seemungal, Florence; Malkani, Bharat; Ball, Roger

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“… 2. Forty years ago, a similar, pioneering exercise was coordinated by Colin Sumner (1982), although that edited volume focuses less on punishment and more on crime and justice. A recent special issue in Punishment & Society is similar to ours in that it crosses the borders of regions of the global peripheries, bringing together works that specifically interrogate the relationship between colonialism and penality (Black et al, 2021). …”

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Introduction: Punishment in global peripheries

Dal Santo,

Sozzo

2023

Theoretical Criminology

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This introduction establishes the problem that the special issue addresses: punishment in global peripheries. Then, it justifies why analysing it is a timely task to examine such matters in the broader context of the growing debate on southernizing and decolonizing criminology, and more particularly, in punishment and society studies. Finally, the contents of the various articles comprised by this special issue and some of their common elements are briefly described.

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Introduction: Punishment in global peripheries

Dal Santo,

Sozzo

2023

Theoretical Criminology

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“…Since this statement was made, a great deal of scholarship has emerged in this area (see, for instance, Black et al 2021 ), though from the above, it is possible to say that criminology, in general, has been ignorant to the (post-)colonial. This aligns with the zemiological critique of criminology regarding the exclusion of serious harms.…”

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Decolonizing Zemiology: Outlining and Remedying the Blindness to (Post)colonialism Within the Study of Social Harm

Wright

2023

Crit Crim

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This paper hosts the first meaningful dialogue between two important epistemic movements for criminology: zemiology and decolonisation. I identify that zemiology has a disciplinary blindness to colonialism and explain this using Gurminder K. Bhambra’s scholarship—and cognate scholarship—as a frame. Three cases—Pemberton’s Harmful Societies, Grenfell, and Border Zemiology—are selected for their critical importance within zemiology. They are used to argue that zemiology works within a standard narrative of modernity characterised by capitalist nation-states, which does not recognise the colonial foundations of both of these. Capitalist modernity is, however, a colonial formation. Recognising this allows for a better understanding for a wide range of harms. I then discuss future directions for decolonial zemiology, advocating not for expansion of repertoire, but canonical revision so that colonialism is afforded space as an explanatory frame and zemiology can better explain social harm on a global level.

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